World Mixed Teams Championship

Last updated January 28, 2024

The World Mixed Teams Championship is a bridge competition for teams of mixed pairs. At every table, two teams are always represented by a mixed pair, one man and one woman.

With the Olympiad, the Mixed Teams has started after the latter's qualifying stage has been concluded. Teams that failed to qualify in the main event as well as new teams may enter. Each team must comprise at least two men and two women. The maximum number of team members is six. During play each pair must consist of one woman and one man. It is not necessary that all team members be from the same country – hence the transnational. A series of Swiss matches leads to the qualification of the top four teams for knockout semifinals and finals.

The World Mixed Swiss Teams is another world championship series for mixed teams, now conducted in non-leap even years as part of the World Bridge Series. Both now permit transnational entries. The difference is between KO and Swiss format. The leap years event is a knockout for 16 teams that survive preliminary play while is a Swiss.^[3] (All teams play several short matches every day throughout the contest, never facing the any team for a second time.)

Results

Year, Site, Entries		Medalists
1962 ^[4] Cannes, France World Pairs Olympiad	1.	Great Britain Nico Gardener, Fritzi Gordon, Rixi Markus, Boris Schapiro
	2.	Netherlands Herman Filarski, Dicky Hoogenkamp, A. Kornalijnslijper, Jopie Westerveld
	3.	Belgium Louis Bogaerts, Count Claude de Hemricourt, Helen Köver, Simone Moulia, Nicolas Savostin
After the first quadrennial "Pairs Olympiad" meet, the mixed event was appropriately changed from teams to pairs.
1972 ^{[NB 1]} Miami Beach, USA	1.	Jacoby Nancy Alpaugh, Bobby Goldman, Jim Jacoby, Heitie Noland, Betsey Wolff, Bobby Wolff
	2.	Roth Gail Moss, Mike Moss, Barbara Rappaport, Alvin Roth (USA)
	3.	Schwenke Sheila Forbes (CAN), Bob Hamman (USA), Shirley Neilson (CAN), Jack Schwenke (USA)

1974 ^[5] Las Palmas, Spain	1.	Morse Peggy Lipsitz, Robert Lipsitz, Jo Morse, Steve Parker, Steve Robinson (USA)
	2.	Stayman Jimmy Cayne, Matt Granovetter, Jacqui Mitchell, Victor Mitchell, Tubby Stayman (USA)
	3.	Cappelletti Kathie Cappelletti, Mike Cappelletti, Bob Lewis, Lois Anne Veren (USA)
For 1996 a world championship for mixed teams was revived as part of the Teams Olympiad program.
1996 ^[6] Rhodes, Greece 86 teams	1.	Heather Jón Baldursson (ISL), Heather Dhondy (GBR), Björn Eysteinsson (ISL), Aðalsteinn Jörgensen (ISL), Liz McGowan (GBR), (Ragnar Hermannsson (ISL))*
	2.	Feldman Mark Feldman, Sharon Osberg, Bill Pollack, Rozanne Pollack (USA)
	3.	Nahmens Pierre Adad, Christine Nahmens, Alain Nahmias, Elisabeth Schaufelberger (France)

2000 ^[7] Maastricht, Netherlands 68 teams	1.	e-bridge Piotr Gawryś (POL), Sam Lev (USA), Irina Levitina (USA), Jill Meyers (USA), John Mohan (USA), Migry Zur Campanile (ISR)
	2.	Bessis Michel Bessis, Véronique Bessis, Paul Chemla, Catherine D'Ovidio
	3.	Wernle Doris Fischer, Andreas Gloyer, Martin Schifko, Jovanka Smederevac, Sascha Wernle

2004 ^[8] Istanbul, Turkey 130 teams	1.	Auken Sabine Auken (GER), Paul Chemla (FRA), Catherine D'Ovidio (FRA), Zia Mahmood (USA)
	2.	Batov Vasil Batov, Steliana Ivanova, Ralitza Mircheva, Julian Stefanov
	3.	Zhang Fu Zhong, Lu Yan, Sun Ming, Wang Liping, Wang Weimin, Zhou Qinghong
After 2004 the Olympiad meet was discontinued by the World Bridge Federation in favor of participation in the World Mind Sports Games. This tournament for mixed teams without restriction to nationality continues alongside the Games as a non-medal event.^[9]
2008 ^[10] Beijing, China World Mind Sports Games non-medal event 120 teams	1.	Yeh Bros Fang-Wen Gong, Sheau-Fong Hu, Gloria Meng, Chih-Kuo Shen, Juei-Yu Shih, Chen Yeh (Chinese Taipei)
	2.	Russia Sviatlana Badrankova (Bel), Alexander Dubinin (Rus), Andrey Gromov (Rus), Victoria Gromova (Rus), Tatiana Ponomareva (Rus), Victoria Volina (Rus)
	3.	A – Evertrust Holding Company Bing Du, Lin Gan, Xu Hou, Yan Huang, Rongqiang Lin(?), Zheng Jun Sshi (China)
2012 ^[11] Lille, France World Mind Sports Games non-medal event 87 teams	1.	Milner Petra HAMMAN (USA), Hemant LALL (USA), Gabriella OLIVIERI (Italy), Jacek PSZCZOLA (USA), Meike WORTEL (Netherlands), Reese MILNER (USA)
	2.	Canada Judith GARTAGANIS, Nicholas GARTAGANIS, Darren WOLPERT, Hazel WOLPERT, Linda WYNSTON, Daniel KORBEL (all players from Canada)
	3.	SAIC Red Jianming DAI, Mao Yuan HU, Yi Qian LIU, Liping WANG, Wen Fei WANG, Zejun ZHUANG (all players from China)

* Hermannsson did not play enough boards in order to qualify for the title of World Champion^{[ citation needed ]}

2012

At the second World Mind Sports Games, August 2012, the Mixed Teams began with a 3-day Swiss tournament from which eight teams qualified for three one-day knockout matches (48 deals each). The qualifying matches were played during the quarterfinal and semifinal matches between national teams in the main events (Bridge at the 2012 World Mind Sports Games). Following those quarterfinals, and 10 qualifying matches played by 83 mixed teams, four new teams joined the latter event with a score that placed them in a tie for 12th place.

Defending champion YEH Bros returned in name, reached the medal round, and finished fourth. Captain Chen Yeh and Juei-Yu Shih, both from Chinese Taipei, were joined by two players from China and two from Japan.

The silver medalists from Canada included a mother and son.

Notes

1 2 ^{[ citation needed ]} WBF listings do not include the 1972 event. Confirmed 2011-08-13.

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References

↑ World Mixed Teams Championship to Date (1962 and 1974). WBF.
↑ World Mixed Teams Championship to Date (1996–2008). WBF.
↑ World Championships & Events tabular overview. WBF.
↑ Results & Participants (Mixed), 1st World Pair Olympiad, 1962. WBF.
↑ Results & Participants (Mixed), 4th World Pair Olympiad, 1974. WBF.
↑ Results & Participants, 1st World Mixed Team Championship, 1996. WBF.
↑ Results & Participants (Mixed), 11th World Team Olympiad, 2000. WBF.
↑ Results & Participants, 3rd World Transnational Mixed Team Championship, 2004. WBF.
↑ "World Mixed Team Championships". WBF. Retrieved 2014-09-02.
↑ Results & Participants (Mixed). 1st World Mind Sports Games [contemporary title]. 13th World Bridge Games. WBF. Retrieved 2014-09-05.
↑ Results & Participants (Mixed). 14th World Bridge Games. WBF. Retrieved 2014-09-05.

External links

World Championship Events tabular overview at the World Bridge Federation

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[y1972-2] 1 2 ^{[ citation needed ]} WBF listings do not include the 1972 event. Confirmed 2011-08-13.

[todate1-1] World Mixed Teams Championship to Date (1962 and 1974). WBF.

[todate2-3] World Mixed Teams Championship to Date (1996–2008). WBF.

[4] World Championships & Events tabular overview. WBF.

[y1962-5] Results & Participants (Mixed), 1st World Pair Olympiad, 1962. WBF.

[y1974-6] Results & Participants (Mixed), 4th World Pair Olympiad, 1974. WBF.

[y1996-7] Results & Participants, 1st World Mixed Team Championship, 1996. WBF.

[y2000-8] Results & Participants (Mixed), 11th World Team Olympiad, 2000. WBF.

[y2004-9] Results & Participants, 3rd World Transnational Mixed Team Championship, 2004. WBF.

[top-10] "World Mixed Team Championships". WBF. Retrieved 2014-09-02.

[y2008-11] Results & Participants (Mixed). 1st World Mind Sports Games [contemporary title]. 13th World Bridge Games. WBF. Retrieved 2014-09-05.

[y2012-12] Results & Participants (Mixed). 14th World Bridge Games. WBF. Retrieved 2014-09-05.

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